Café Writers presents to you….monthly readings of poetry and prose of extremely high quality in a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere. There are also open mic slots every month so do come along and share something of your own.
Meetings are held at Louis Marchesi, 17 Tombland, Norwich in the upstairs function room. Meetings start at 7.30pm and the entrance fee is £3.
To join our email list for news of upcoming events, please email: info@cafewriters.co.uk
OUR 10TH AUGUST EVENT with guest appearances from Joelle Taylor and Laura Scott will be held through ZOOM. Please join us by registering through Eventbrite here: – https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cafe-writers-tickets-114508905218 so we can send you the zoom link nearer the time. ‘Open Mic’ slots can be reserved. ZOOM opens between 7.30 and 7.45pm on the !0th AUGUST.
This will be a free event, but if you would like to send us a donation, you can do so here through PayPal https://paypal.me/CafeWriters?locale.x=en_GB
Cafe Writers was a blast – great audience, good humoured and keen
Sean O’Brien
The 2019 Café Writers Open Poetry Competition results, judged by Zaffar Kunial
Programme
Forthcoming events
July 13th 2020 – George Szirtes and Jennifer Wong. This event will now be held through ZOOM. See home page for details.
George Szirtes’s first book of poems, The Slant Door, in 1979 was joint-winner of the Faber Prize. He has published many since then, his collection, Reel, winning the T S Eliot Prize in 2004 for which he has been twice shortlisted since. His latest is Mapping the...
10th August 2020 – Joelle Taylor and Laura Scott. This event will now be held through ZOOM. See Home Page for details.
Joelle Taylor is an award-winning poet, playwright, author and editor who has recently completed touring Europe, Australia, Brazil and South east Asia with her latest collection Songs My Enemy Taught Me. She is widely anthologist, the author of three full poetry...
14th September 2020 – Philip Gross and Heidi Williamson
Philip Gross has published over twenty collections of poetry, including The Water Table, which won the T.S.Eliot Prize 2009, and a new collection, Between The Islands, from Bloodaxe in March, 2020. He received a Cholmondeley Award in 2017, and his science-based...
12th October 2020 – John McCullough, Peter Pegnall and Gerard Noyau
John McCullough's first collection of poems, The Frost Fairs won the Polari First Book Prize in 2012 and was a Book of the Year for The Independent as well as a summer read in The Observer. His second, Spacecraft (Penned in the Margins, 2016) was named one of The...